1. The Lord’s word came to me:
2. Human one, face Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
3. Say to it, The Lord God proclaims:I’m against you, Mount Seir!I will use my power against you.I will make you into a desolate wasteland,
4. I will turn your cities into ruins,and you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5. Because you nursed an ancient grudge, you handed the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their distress, during their final punishment.
6. So now the Lord God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Because you don’t hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
7. I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate wasteland, when I cut off from it both passerby and homecomer.
8. I will fill its highlands—your hills and your valleys, and all your ravines—with its slain. Those who are slain by the sword will fall on them.